Constance Ewing Cook is associate professor of higher education at the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan. She is a political scientist who first became familiar with the Washington higher education associations when she worked for the U.S. Department of Education. Later, as executive assistant to the president of the University of Michigan, she learned about higher education lobbying from a campus perspective.
Everyone engaged in any way in the Washington battles of higher
education will want this map of the terrain, locating as it does
both the institutional combatants and the issues. Through a
convincing and fascinating analysis of recent history, Professor
Cook also provides clear, concise, balanced, and compelling
judgments that will be of critical importance to everyone touched
by federal higher education policy." —Sheldon Hackney, former
president of Tulane University and the University of Pennsylvania,
and former chairman of NEH
"An important antidote to the increasingly cynical view of
Washington and a must-read for current and aspiring college
presidents, deans, and other administrative and student leaders.
Cook details the remarkable story of how the higher education
community, believing in the rightness of their cause, drastically
changed their modus operandi and prevailed in the most serious
battle in decades over federal support of higher education." —Nan
Shelby Wells, Director of Government Affairs, Princeton
University
"Lobbying for Higher Education is the finest study we have of
coalition formation among Washington lobbies and the best book we
have on the interest group politics surrounding policymaking for
colleges and universities." —Jeffrey M. Berry, author of The
Interest Group Society and Lobbying for the People
"A superior book, well grounded in the relevant literature, that
offers consistently balanced, informed, and perceptive judgments."
—Hugh Davis Graham, author of The Rise of American Research
Universities
"Outstanding. Cook's use and interpretation of interview and survey
data are superb. The book will command the attention of all of the
major stakeholders in the relationship between higher education and
the federal government." —Harland G. Bloland, author of
Associations in Action: The Washington Higher Education Community.
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